Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > I am sending this to provide an update on the development status of Bacula. > Recently, I have been struggling to find the motivation to finish the Python > implementation in Bacula -- the going is slow, but progressing just the same. > The slow going is probably because I am not getting feedback.
Well here's some feedback then :) After misplacing our ARCServe CD, but only realising after uninstalling ARCServe in order to reinstall elsewhere I urgently needed an alternative! I'd seen bacula enter the Debian listings, and thought I'd give it a try. Configuration was fairly straightforward (mostly due to the excellently maintained manual) and I had it all set up and running, backing up 3 Windows servers to a pair of DLT8000 tabletop drives on an old Proliant 1000 (dual P133) in about 5 hours (with interruptions). Add a couple of weeks to fine-tune newbie mistakes and it's now running smoothly without any manual intervention needed (to begin with, I was issuing mount and unmount commands by hand every day). Bacula's a nice bit of work, and my only gripe is that it takes at least an hour to prune the database every day - not bacula's fault, just that the machine is slow, the disks are slower and I'm using the sqlite backend. It also seems to want to do database operations at times when it should really be getting on with the backup, which is a little irritating. ARCserve had a special "prune database" job you could schedule which would make sure the database was pruned at a set time. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Nemi: http://www.metro.co.uk/img/pix/nemi_apr29.jpg ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tell us your software development plans! Take this survey and enter to win a one-year sub to SourceForge.net Plus IDC's 2005 look-ahead and a copy of this survey Click here to start! http://www.idcswdc.com/cgi-bin/survey?id=105hix _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
